Archive for 'Heart & Circulation'
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Fighting hunger and obesity at the same time
The Obama administration intends to use federal food assistance programs to improve the nutrition of the poor, the Washington Post reports.
Obesity is a growing health problem with one in four Americans now being dangerously overweight and one in three children being either overweight or obese.
Research, including work being [...]
Posted: December 25th, 2008 under Diet & Nutrition, Emergency Medicine, Heart & Circulation, Transplantation & Donation.
Tags: Medic One, Obesity, Organ Donation, Seattle Health News
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Vitamins E and C fail to prevent heart attacks and strokes in men
Taking vitamins E and C failed to prevent heart attacks and strokes in a large study of older men being released online today by JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The study followed more than 14,600 male physicians over the the age of 50 years who were randomly assigned to take either a vitamin [...]
Posted: November 9th, 2008 under Diet, Heart & Circulation, Nutrition, Preventive Health.
Tags: Heart Disease, Stroke, Supplements, Vitamin C
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More children on prescription drugs, study
More U.S. children are taking prescription drugs for the treatment of asthma, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes and other chronic diseases, according to a new study.
The study, which appears in the November issue of the journal Pediatrics, looked at data from Express Scripts, a pharmacy benefits management company that supplies prescription drugs to more [...]
Posted: November 3rd, 2008 under Asthma, Child & Youth Health, Diabetes, Drugs & Medicines, Heart & Circulation.
Tags: ADD, ADHD, Pediatrics
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